I liked FFX-2. Yuna was less annoying, Rikku rocked as usual, and then there was the awesome Paine (who should've been in the first one!). It was nice having an all girl cast for once and the story was okay. I liked it better than X probably because X was too linear for me and some of the characters annoyed me. It makes sense to have the airship since you've already been through most of Spira in FFX anyway. I think it would've been boring to go through Spira that way again when I already knew where everything was.